Getting older games to work with XP

[BC|Wulf]

I have a few older games I woiuld love to play again, but am having major problems with them running in XP.

Vampire masqurade (SP?)
and Tie Fighter

I have not been able to use either game since I upgraded to XP. Tie fighter does not work because of the processer speed, at least that is my take on it.

If anyone has any ideas let me know.

And I did try the compatibility settings and it does not help at all.

[JasonDTM]

Try running in Windows 98/ME compatibility mode

[BC|Wulf]

That helps alittle for Vampire Masquerade, but it always crashes right after the opening movie clip.

Now that I think of it Tie Fighter did not even work on my P3. Probably need to get some sort of program to slow the processor down for that one.

[KILLorBE]

Have you tried DOSBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1)?

[BC|Wulf]

No I have not. Good idea! I will give it a try tonight. Thanks!

[batboy]

If you have access to Win98, you could do a dual boot OS for when you wanna play those games.

[Brundle Fly]

If you have access to Win98, you could do a dual boot OS for when you wanna play those games.

...that's what I do, uses up HDD space though, and 98 drives me nuts, soon as you boot into it you're waiting for the all too familiar BSOD...

...I tried this program out a long time ago, worked OK, but wasn't the greatest, but it's been updated since then, worth a shot, I used it to play Wing Commander...

http://www.hpaa.com/moslo/basic.asp

...for game compatibilty, and to see if anyone else got it working, head over here. There's forums there too if you want to search them, good luck... :)

http://www.ntcompatible.com/compat.php?cat=games&idx=0

[Grov]

Ive always had a problem with the original AvP from 1999 on XP Pro. :bang head